Tooth brush and tooth paste holder



G. W. RHODES.

TOOTH BRUSH AND TOOTH PASTE HOLDER.

APPL-LCATION FILED 00115, 1918.

1,310,089. Patented July 15, 1919.

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TOOTH-BRUSH AND TOOTH-PASTE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 15, 1919.

Application filed October 15, 1918. Serial No. 258,131. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. Rr-Ioons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scappoose, in the county of Columbia and State of Ore on, have invented certain new and useful mprovements in Tooth-Brush and Tooth-Paste Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a simple, handy and useful device for supporting a tooth brush and a tube of tooth paste in convenient position for quick and easy access, the device forming a means for protecting as well as supporting the tooth brush. The device is designed primarily for individual use, but may with little trouble be so formed as to support a number of brushes and so serve for family use.

With these objects in view, together with others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the novel formation, combination and arrangement of parts, all as will be described more fully hereinafter, particularly pointed out in the claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved tooth brush holder, a portion of which is shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a similar view on the line 33 of the same figure, and

Fig. 4: is a plan view of a modified form of the support showing it arranged for holding two or more tooth brushes.

In the drawings, 10 indicates the supporting frame of the device made in a somewhat cruciform shape in which the upwardly projecting arm 11 terminates in an eye 12 by which the frame may be suspended. The downwardly projecting arm 13 of the frame has its lower end 14 bent outwardly at right angles thereto and then forwardly as at 15 to form a support for a disk 16 having a dropped or shouldered edge 17 which is turned outwardly or horizontally to form a flange 18 for a purpose to be described later.

The horizontal arms 19 and 20 of the cruciform frame 10 are similar, each being formed with a circular loop or ring 21 at its outer end and preferably lying wholly on the forward side of said horizontal arms. The loop or ring 21 of the arm 19 is axially in line with the disk 16 and of substantially the same diameter interior-1y as said disk through which ring is passed a casing 22 for covering and protecting from the atmosphere a tooth brush 23. The casing 22 may be of glass, celluloid or other suitable material. In the, present instance the casing is shown as made of glass with a hemispherical top 24 and an open bottom that rests upon the flange 18 of the disk 16 around its shoulder 17. By this means the tooth brush is wholly protected. The loop or ring 21 on the arm 20 is of substantially the same diameter and is designed to support a tube 25 of tooth paste, the tube hanging through the ring and being supported thereby as shown.

The frame 10 may be hung by the eye 12 upon a nail, or secured rigidly to the wall by means of a screw passing through said eye and in any position most convenient for use. When it is desired to remove the tooth brush from the holder, the casing 22 is raised slightly and moved to one side as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, thus pushing the tooth brush handle off of the disk and permitting it to drop out of the open end of the casing where it may be caught by the hand, and after removal, the casing may be replaced on the disk until such time as the brush is to be replaced therein.

It may sometimes be desirable to make the frame of suflicient size to support two or more brushes. This may be done as shown in Fig. 4:, by making one or both arms 19 and 20 longer and in addition to the loop or ring 21 thereon, forming a coil 26 between the loop and its connection to the arms 11 and 12 which may be used either for the tooth brush or for the paste tube.

The foregoing description and the drawings have reference to what may be considered the preferred, or approved form of my invention. It is to be understood that I may make such changes in construction and arrangement and combinationof parts, materials, dimensions, et cetera, as may prove expedient and fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my inven tion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A holder of the type described comprisin anupright frame having at its upper end a supporting eye, between its ends a laterally extendin arm terminating in a ring standing in a iorizontal plane, and its lower end extended laterally beneath the ring, a disk carried upon said lower end and having a dropped edge provided with an outwardly projecting flange, and a tubular casing Whose upper end is closed, Whose body fits slidably Within said ring, and Whose lower end rests upon the flange around said shoulder, whereby a tooth brush may be housed Within saidcasing and Will rest upon said disk. 10

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presenceof two Witnesses.

Copies of this patent may' be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, G. 

